Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.
The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.
Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.
The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds
You can build the most important companies in history with a very simple to describe concept. You can market products in less than 50 characters. There is no reason why you can't build your company the same way. So force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do. Basically take out that red and start eliminating stuff.
I walk into a company office and I can tell often whether I'm gonna invest, as soon as I walk in.
Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse.
That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.
I love having somebody there - that companion thing. You know who you're going to eat with, who you're going to see a movie with.
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing. ) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.